Dinner plate, cream-coloured earthenware, decorated with 'Palmyra' pattern, a sepia printed design with a central pot of sunflowers and concentric bands of prunus blossom and hatching; back, printed facory mark, pattern name and registered design mark w

Dinner plate, cream-coloured earthenware, decorated with 'Palmyra' pattern, a sepia printed design with a central pot of sunflowers and concentric bands of prunus blossom and hatching; back, printed facory mark, pattern name and registered design mark with encoded date of 2nd February 1883, made by Sampson Hancock, Bridge Works, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, 1883+
the ruins of the Graeco-Roman city of Palmyra are found 150 miles north-east of Damascus in Syria